Re: [aima-talk] Compiler for Source in Text

... Without meaning to be painfully pedantic, if you mean by LISP (or lisp since this looks a bit quieter on the page :) that you are talking about common lisp

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, Sep 20, 2002

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>Serguei Mokhov ha scritto:
> Not exactly LISP, but a subset.

Without meaning to be painfully pedantic, if you mean
by LISP (or lisp since this looks a bit quieter on the
page :) that you are talking about common lisp --
which I belive the examples to be implemented in --
then, no, scheme is not "a subset" of lisp. There are
elements in the scheme standare that are not -- or can
not -- be implemented in common lisp.

If however, you mean by *a* "LISP," that scheme can
trace ancedance from the early work by McCarthy and
others, then yes, scheme is a lisp. However, rather
like the dolphin and the blue whale, they are somewhat
different in form and function. Hope this helps.

> >Serguei Mokhov ha scritto:
> > Not exactly LISP, but a subset.
> Without meaning to be painfully pedantic, if you mean
> by LISP (or lisp since this looks a bit quieter on the
> page :) that you are talking about common lisp --

I wasn't talking about any particular flavour of lisp.

> which I belive the examples to be implemented in --
> then, no, scheme is not "a subset" of lisp. There are

Okay, not a *proper* subset :)

> If however, you mean by *a* "LISP," that scheme can
> trace ancedance from the early work by McCarthy and

Yes.

-s

Owain Roberts

My understanding is that this goup if for discussions directly pertaining to Artificial Intelligence: A modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig.

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, Sep 20, 2002

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My understanding is that this goup if for discussions
directly pertaining to 'Artificial Intelligence: A
modern Approach' by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig.

> My understanding is that this goup if for
> discussions directly pertaining to 'Artificial
> Intelligence: A modern Approach' by Stuart Russell

and

> Peter Norvig.

Yes. The answer I gave was in response to a thread as
to whether the aima code would run under scheme. I was
trying to explain why this was not so and that
there were a number of practical steps that could be
carried out to run the examples.

For completeness, I should have added that IIRC the
examples are also implemented in a number of other
languages. This would suggest a third approach of not
using lisp but java, say. However, I don't know enough
about this to be of any futher assistance.

Why is this not "on topic?" Unless, of course, the
first question was not.

> Might this dicussion be better suited to
> comp.land.lisp?

Further dicussion (sic) would. Or any one of a number
of other places.